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At the class reunion, someone asked Charles Bennett, my fiancé, "If Sophia weren't the Grants' adopted daughter, would you marry her?" "Yes," Charles replied. The whole table went quiet. Everyone waited for me to fall apart. After all, I was the Grants' newly found real daughter, his fiancée in name. But I only smiled. I took off my engagement ring and dropped it into my wine glass. The silver band hit the bottom with a soft clink. "Good. Marry her then. "One more thing. Every dollar, every connection, and every project I've kept the Bennetts afloat with for the past three years? I want it all back by eight tomorrow morning. "Don't love her on my dime."